Improving Teacher Quality State Grants

Request for Proposals

Georgia's Improving Teacher Quality Higher Education Program is managed by the University of Georgia for the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. Funding to support the program comes to the Board of Regents from the United States Department of Education as part of the No Child Left Behind Act signed by President George W. Bush and later identified as Title II, Part A, of Public Law 107-110. Georgia's Improving Teacher Quality Higher Education Program funds are used to enhance the teaching of science, mathematics, language arts, reading, and social studies at the elementary, middle, and high school levels in public and private schools.

Proposal information

• RFP Details
• Cover Sheet #1
• Cover Sheet #2
• High Need LEAs
• Sample Budget Narrative
• Budget Summary
• Sample Budget Summary
• Scientifically Based Research
• Smart Objectives

Project Director Reporting

All Project Director Reports will be collected via Qualtrics. The ITQ Office will send the survey links to Project Directors through email. Project Directors are responsible for:

1. Project director - initial report template
   Providing project director with the link to the first survey during the initial workshop or course.
2. Project director - final report template
   Providing project director with the link to the follow-up survey at the end of the project.

Participant Surveys

All participant surveys will be collected via Qualtrics. The ITQ Office will send the survey links to participants through email. Participants are responsible for:

1. Initial experience survey template
   Participants will be provided initial survey.
2. Attendee follow-up survey template
   Participants will be provided follow-up survey.

Initial Survey Evaluation Reports

1. Survey sample - UGA Biotech Boot Camp
2. Survey sample - Georgia Southern University
3. Survey sample - Columbia State University
4. Survey sample - Georgia Intern-Fellowships for Teachers
5. Annotated survey sample

Abstracts – 2016-2017

Agnes Scott College

• Delving into the Digital Humanities with Secondary Teachers

Albany State University

• STEM Outdoors: a Pathway through the new Georgia Standards of Excellence in Science

Armstrong State University

• WISE workshop—A Flipped Classroom Professional Development Initiative

Augusta University

• R3: Building Lessons that Connect Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic

Columbus State University

• Linking Multiple Representations
• Making Meaning of Representations

Georgia Southern University

• Blue Bloods and Red Knots of Sapelo Island 2017
• From Place to People: A Collaborative Inquiry-Based Teacher Training in Social

Georgia State University

• Building Elementary Teachers' Knowledge of Arts-based Instructional Approaches to Understand Students Comprehension and Achievement Through Children's Art
• Collaborating to Enhance the Mathematics Understanding for Secondary Teaching through Classroom-Based Situations
• Preparing Georgia's High School Science Teachers to Integrate Interdisciplinary, Inquiry-based, Hands-on Research Modules in the Classroom
• Building Capacity for STEM Schools (BCSS)

Georgia Institute of Technology

• Physiology Laboratory Experiences for Applied Science Educator (PLEASE)
• EYES on the Universe: STEM Connections #2
• Renewal: The Summer Workshop in Marine Science (SWIMS) at Georgia Tech

Gordon State College

• Rivers to Reef

Kennesaw State University

• Collaborative for Advancing Mathematical Proficiency Part III
• SysTEMic
• Phenomenal 3-D Science
• Building Capacity in Cobb County for Fourth Year Mathematics Instruction
• Open Source Technology for Teaching High School Mathematics

University of Georgia

• EcoSTEM: Integration of STEM, 3-D Science and Project-based Learning
• Supporting Literacy for Diverse Learners through the School Library
• Robot Math: Enhancing Mathematics through Robotics
• UGA Biotech Boot Camps Year 8 renewal

University of West Georgia

• Expanding Elementary Teachers' content Knowledge of Ecosystems across Georgia
• Enhancing the Nature of Science and Problem Solving in Elementary Science
• Application of Energy Related Core Ideas and Practices Across Middle and Secondary Earth, Environmental, and Life Sciences

Weslyan College

• Flying Together: Connecting with Science through Birds